But because of the availability of land, as well as lawsuits from the public who don’t want homeless housing in their neighborhood, housing for the chronically homeless in Los Angeles is spread all throughout the LA County. This creates a patchwork of housing sites, with redundancies in staffing and services, and many times caseworkers are required to travel to the locations.

With the Citizens Again City, having a single location would allow many more supportive services for a greater number of people, resulting in a lower cost. And by being located away from neighborhoods, the public wouldn’t oppose the location (known as NIMBY – Not In My BackYard).

Of course, Citizens Again isn’t for everyone; but it’s a viable option to provide more housing, with more services, for more homeless, for a lower cost to taxpayers.

The post Homeless housing is scattered across Los Angeles appeared first on Citizens Again.

In 2017, Los Angeles opened its waitlist for housing choice vouchers. It had been closed for new applicants for 13 years. Households selected to receive vouchers would only have to pay 30 percent of their income in rent, with the rest paid by the government (taxpayers).

There were 600,000 applicants for just 20,000 spots on the list.

And this was 4 years ago. Imagine how long the list would be, considering the problems with the pandemic from this past year, as well as increased immigration (which increases the demand for affordable housing, and competition for jobs), rising rents and housing costs, inflation, and other issues.

Homelessness will increase. We need to prepare for the future.

The post 600,000 applicants for 20,000 affordable housing vouchers appeared first on Citizens Again.